Robotic agents designed to assist people across a variety of social and service settings are
becoming increasingly prevalent across the world. Here we synthesise two decades of …

Social service robots are becoming increasingly pervasive in our everyday lives, including in
healthcare, education and customer service settings. It is known that different cultures and …

Appropriate human likeness for social robots is said to increase trust and acceptance.
Whether this applies to human communication features like dialog initiative needs to be …

Culture, intended as the set of beliefs, values, ideas, language, norms and customs which
compose a person's life, is an essential element to know by any robot for personal …

An emerging trend in utilizing service robots in a vast range of application areas could be
seen nowadays as a promising effort to uplift the living standard. These service robots are …

With the development of mobile robots, research on interpersonal distances grew by a new
body of research introducing new opportunities to environmental psychology. In this review …

Purpose The aim of the present review is to explore the influence of culture on attitudes
towards humanoid and animal‐like robots. Design An integrative review of current evidence …

This article presents a study of cultural differences affecting the acceptance and design
preferences of social robots. Based on a survey with 794 participants from Germany and the …

Cultural influences are pervasive throughout human behaviour, and as human–robot
interactions become more common, roboticists are increasingly focusing attention on how to …

Increasingly autonomous robots become more and more prevalent in daily life and their
proximity to humans may affect human well-being and comfort. Consequently, researchers …